Character Quotes · Page 199

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.

— Tom Felton

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

— Osamu Dazai

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

— Ashwin Sanghi

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

— Scarlett Johansson

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

— John Cena

“Talent is often developed at the expense of character. The greater the talent, the more the mischief.”

— Melissa McPhail

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

— William Butler Yeats

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table.…

— Nicolas Cage

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be…

— Melanie Lynskey

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past…

— Shannon L. Alder

“African virtues are not framed by unsubstantiated perceptions, but by the fundamental principles defined by each nations blueprint that signifies what the…

— Wayne Chirisa

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him…

— Thomas Perry

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your…

— Tammy Bruce

I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know,…

— Alicia Witt

I don't do many films at the same time, as I don't like to switch between characters. At a given point, I…

— Nivin Pauly

I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit…

— Isabel Toledo

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from…

— Suzy Kassem

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to…

— African Spir

I always thought that Bray Wyatt, who had the most creative characters that he came up with it - it was a…

— Arn Anderson

It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV…

— Nathan Fillion

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have…

— Henry David Thoreau

“…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.”

— Jerry Pinkney

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

— Mark Haddon

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.”

— Dick Couch

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

— Lysander Spooner

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

— Michael Shanks

Respectable character is developed by consistency in self discipline and self control.

— Anil Kumar Sinha

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

— Maimonides

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

— Frances Wright

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

— Dr. Seuss

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

— Plutarch

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

— Veronica Roth

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

— Maximilien Robespierre